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General Aims

The proposed M.Ed in Inclusive Education programme aims to:

• produce teachers and professionals with formal qualification in special and inclusive education who are equipped with sound knowledge and skills to teach and respond to students with special educational needs;
• develop awareness and skills in teachers and professionals to critically explore policy and practice in Special and Inclusive Education (SIE) within Bhutan and at the international level;
• produce teachers and professionals with deep understanding and appreciation of inclusive philosophy; and
• build on teachers’ and professionals’ prior knowledge and develop the skills necessary to support the needs of individuals experiencing a range of barriers to learning and participation.

Objectives

The specific objectives of this programme are to develop teachers and professionals:

• who demonstrate deep understanding of the knowledge of various types of disabilities and exhibit skills to respond to the educational needs of those children who are identified as having disability;
• with competency to critically explore policy and practice in special and inclusive education, nationally and internationally;
• with competency to identify and reduce barriers to individual student’s learning and development;
• with competency to foster educational environments that recognise difference, value diversity, foster high levels of student engagement and learning, challenge social injustice and inequity, and support collaborative relationships among students, parents/ caregivers, staff and professionals;
• who are equipped with skills and knowledge in instructional practice related to supporting students with learning difficulties and disabilities in inclusive classrooms;
• who understand and demonstrate knowledge of observation, documentation and assessment processes in inclusive classroom settings; and
• who understand the philosophy of inclusion, possess skills to identify children with special needs and those at a higher risk of experiencing barriers to learning and exclusion and to take care of their needs and make referrals where necessary.

 Programme Structure

Admission Criteria 

To be eligible for enrolment in this programme, the candidate should:

1. Hold a bachelor’s degree (BEd; BA; BSc) from a university or an institution recognized by RCSC;
2. Have scored a minimum of 50% in English Language Proficiency Test comprising of a written test and oral interview. The aim of the test will be to assess the candidate’s analytical ability and language proficiency so that the candidate can cope with the programmes demands on language and higher order thinking.
3. The English Language Proficiency Test and the oral interview will be conducted virtually.

Tender Documents for PCE

1. Tender Document for supply of STEM Equipments 

Coordination Meeting

The first coordination meeting for the Bhutan Technical Committee members was held at Paro College of Education (PCE) on 16/08/2022 with regard to the joint project “A Multi-Country Study on Educational Innovations for Out of School Children (OOSC) and Children at Risk of Dropping Out (covering Bangladesh, Bhutan, and Nepal)” supported by International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and Global Partnership for Education (GPE). The meeting was attended by representatives from various CSOs that support disabilities such as Ability Bhutan Society, Draktsho Vocational Institute, Phensem Parents Support Group and VTOB. Similarly, there were representatives from Ministry of Education, UNICEF Bhutan, and schools that support SEN programmes. The President, project coordinator and researchers for PCE attended the meeting.

The President as a Chairperson made opening remarks reminding the participants the importance and opportunities of this joint project for out of school children and youth with disabilities in Bhutan. Then the Project Coordinator presented an update of the project activities conducted as aligned to the project phases and milestones achieved till date. The researchers presented the results and analysis of the baseline qualitative study that was conducted with parents of children with disabilities, officials from Ministry of Education, District Education Officers and representatives from CSOs that support people with disabilities.

A brainstorming session was conducted for possible implementation of strategies and programmes that was identified as an output from the qualitative data analysis for including out of school children with disabilities and children with disabilities at risk of dropping out from the schools. It was decided that three intervention strategies namely – advocacy and awareness, therapy sessions and educational activities will be designed as a package considering the severity of disabilities in the children and youth. It was also decided that considering the organization’s strengths in implementing these intervention strategies, respective organizations would develop intervention packages accordingly. The preparation and transition to employability opportunities for youth with disabilities were also explored.

Tender Documents

1. Supply of Sport Lab Equipment Re-tender
2. Supply of Sport Lab Equipment tender
3. Tender Document (annual tender)
4. Tender Document for ATTAIN Project
5. Tender Document for STEM

PCE: Journal

Overview

A joint project titled ‘A Multi-Country Study on Educational Innovations for Out of School Children (OOSC) and Children at Risk of Dropping Out (covering Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal)’ in consortium with School of Arts, Kathmandu University (Lead) in Nepal and South Asian Institute of Social Transformation, Bangladesh (Partner), Paro College of Education, Royal University of Bhutan will address OOSC with Disabilities (OOSCD) and at risk children with disabilities (CWD) of dropping out.

In this regard, the overall objective of this joint project is to innovate and evaluate education approaches and practices that will address in increasing inclusion of OOSC in public schools and prevent children at risk of dropping out. Similarly, the specific objective are as follows:

1. Knowledge Generation – build knowledge about innovative practices and strategies to address barriers to inclusive access to education and better learning outcomes for out-of-school children and children at risk of dropping out including their scalability and scalable pathways.
2. Knowledge Mobilization – support the mobilization of the knowledge generated in and across education systems to inform policies and practices.
3. Capacity Building – build capacity of key stakeholders to generate, use and exchange knowledge and practices that promote quality education for out-of-school and at-risk children.

However, each country will address their own respective themes in terms of different groups of children.

For Bhutan, the theme as considered is educational innovations for out of school children with disabilities (OOSCD) and children with disabilities at risk of dropping out addressing urban and rural community of a particular district in Bhutan.

The timeline for the project is 31 Months (1^st May, 2021 – 30^th November, 2023)

Project Coordinators

1. Binayak Krishna Thapa (Nepal)
2. U.S. Rokeya Akhter (Bangladesh)
3. Dr. Karma Jigyel (Bhutan)

Events

1. Coordination Meeting

2. Enumerators Training

3. KIX IDRC Review Meeting

4. Disability  Equality Training (DET) and Self  Advocacy Workshop

རིན་ཆེན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་འདི་ སྤ་རོ་ཤེས་རིག་མཐོ་རིམ་སློབ་གྲྭ་ནང་ལུ་ ཞིབ་རོགས་དབང་གི་ཕྱག་ཕྱིད་ཞུ་མི་ཅིག་ཨིན། ཁོ་གིས་ སྤྱི་ལོ་ ༡༩༨༧ ལུ་ སློབ་གྲྭ་ཆུང་བའི་སློབ་དཔོན་ཅིག་འབད་ ཕྱག་ཕྱིད་ཞུ་ནི་འགོ་བཙུགས་ཅི།  ཁོ་གིས་ སྤྱི་ལོ་ ༡༩༩༨༧-༡༩༩༦ ཚུན་ ལོ་ངོ་བཅུ་ཕྲག་གཅིག་གི་རིང་ལུ་ ཧཱ་རྫོང་ཁག་ ཚ་འཕེལ་དང་སྐར་ཚོགས་སློབ་གྲྭ་ཆུང་བ་གཉིས་ཀྱི་ནང་ལུ་ གཞི་རིམ་ཆུང་བའི་རྫོང་ཁའི་སློབ་དཔོན་དང་ དབུ་འཛིན་ངོ་ཚབ་དང་དབུ་འཛིན་ལས་རོགས་པའི་ལཱ་འགན་ཚུ་ཡང་ཕྱག་ཕྱིད་ཞུ་སྟེ་ སློབ་གྲྭ་ཆུང་བའི་འཛིན་སྐྱོན་དང་ སློབ་སྟོན་གྱི་ཉམས་མྱོང་ཚུ་ཐོབ་སྟེ་ཡོད།

སྤྱི་ལོ་ ༡༩༩༧-༢༠༠༠ ཚུན་ ཆོས་ཚན་རྩ་གཞུང་དང་ལས་རིགས་རྒྱབ་སྐྱོར་ལས་ཚན་ (CAPSS) ནང་ལུ་ རྫོང་ཁའི་ཆོས་ཚན་རྩ་གཞུང་འགོ་དཔོན་ (Curriculum Officer) འབད་ཕྱག་ཕྱིད་ཞུ་སྟེ་ སློབ་རིམ་ཆུང་བའི་རྩ་གཞུང་བྲི་ནི་དང་ སློབ་དཔོན་ཚུ་ལུ་ ཁྱད་རིག་གི་སྦྱོང་བརྡར་ བྱིན་ནིའི་ལཱ་ཚུ་འབད་ཡི། ལྷག་པར་དུ་ མཐའ་འཁོར་སློབ་སྦྱོང་སྐད་སྒྱུར་དང་སྦྱོང་བརྡར་བྱིན་ནིའི་ལཱ་འགན་ཧྲིལ་བུ་འབག་སྟེ་ ཕྱག་ཕྱིད་ཞུ་ཡི། དེ་མ་ཚད་ སློབ་རིམ་བཞི་པ་ལས་དྲུག་པ་ཚུན་གྱི་སློབ་དེབ་ཚུ་ཡང་གསརཔ་བྲིས་ཡི།

སྤྱི་ལོ་ ༢༠༠༠ ལུ་ སྤ་རོ་ཤེས་རིག་མཐོ་རིམ་སློབ་གྲྭ་ནང་ལུ་ ལེགས་བཤད་པའི་ལཱ་འགན་ཕྱག་ཕྱིད་ཞུ་སྟེ་ མཐོ་རིམ་སློབ་གྲྭ་ནང་ལུ་ སློབ་སྦྱོང་ལས་རིམ་ཚུ་གི་སྦྱོང་ཚན་གསརཔ་བྲི་ནི་དང་ ལག་དེབ་ཚུ་བྲིས་ཏེ་ སློབ་སྦྱོང་གི་སྤུས་ཚད་ཡར་རྒྱས་རྐྱངམ་གཅིག་ལུ་དམིགས་ཏེ་ ཕྱག་ཕྱིད་ཞུ་ཡི། མཐོ་རིམ་སློབ་གྲྭ་ནང་ལུ་ སློབ་སྟོན་སྦྱང་བའི་མཉམ་འབྲེལ་པ་ (TP Coordinator) རྫོང་ཁ་ལས་སྡེའི་འགོ་འཛིན་ (Head, Dzo. Department) གཙུག་ལག་གཞི་རིམ་རྫོང་ཁའི་ལས་རིམ་འགོ་ཁྲིདཔ་( Program Leader, B.Ed. Dzo.)  གཙུག་ལག་གཞི་རིམ་གོང་མའི་ལས་རིམ་འགོ་ཁྲིདཔ་ (Program Leader, PgDE) རྫོང་ཁའི་སློབ་སྦྱོང་གི་འགོ་འཛིན་པའི་ (Head of Dzo. Studies ) གཙུག་ལག་མཐོ་རིམ་རྫོང་ཁའི་ཤེས་ཡོན་གྱི་ལས་རིམ་འགོ་ཁྲིདཔ་ (Program Leader, M.Ed. Dzongkha) གི་ལཱ་འགན་ཚུ་ ཅི་ལྕོགས་གང་ལྕོགས་ཀྱི་སྒོ་ལས་ཕྱག་ཕྱིད་ཞུ་དང་ ཞུ་བཞིན་དུ་ཡོད།

ཁོ་གིས་ སྤྱི་ལོ་ ༢༠༡༤ ལུ་ མཐོ་རིམ་སློབ་གྲྭ་ག་རའི་དོན་ལུ་ རྫོང་ཁ་བརྡ་དོན་སྤྲོད་ལེན་གྱི་སྦྱོང་ཚན་  བྲིས་ཏེ་ འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་འཛིན་གཙུག་ལག་སློབ་སྡེ་ལུ་དང་ སྤྱི་ལོ་ ༢༠༡༥ ལུ་ ལུང་འདྲེན་དང་རྒྱབ་རྟེན་འབད་ཐངས་ཀྱི་དཔེ་དེབ་ཅིག་བྲིས་ཏེ་ སྤ་རོ་ཤེས་རིག་མཐོ་རིམ་སློབ་གྲྭ་ནང་ལུ་ ཞལ་འདེབས་འབད་ཕུལ་ཡི། ཁོ་གིས་ མཐོ་རིམ་སློབ་གྲྭ་རྐྱངམ་གཅིག་ནང་མེན་པར་ འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་འཛིན་གཙུག་ལག་སློབ་སྡེའི་ནང་ལུ་དང་ ལས་སྡེ་གཞན་ཚུ་ལུ་ཡང་ ཁྱད་རིག་གི་ཞབས་ཏོག་ཚུ་ ཕྱག་ཕྱིད་ཞུ་དང་ཞུ་བཞིན་དུ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་ནོ།། 

Email:   rinchengyemtsho.pce@rub.edu.bt

Chimi Dema, is an assistant lecturer. She joined the teaching faculty at Paro College of Education from July, 2017. She teaches Diploma and Undergraduate courses especially focusing on Early Childhood Education. She has actively participated in conducting trainings in and out of college in ECCD field. She works with children at the Centre for Early Childhood Studies.

She has been appointed as the Programme Leader for Diploma in Early Childhood Care and Development from August 2020. She is a passionate teacher who wants to see the best for her students and is continuously working for the betterment of the ECCD field in the country. For her research studies, she is interested to study about various types of play especially focusing on blocks and children’s development, parents’ perceptions about play and learning and working with families and communities. 

                                               Email:   chimidema.pce@rub.edu.bt